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enSPIP - www.spip.netMoqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's savvy strategisthttps://mondediplo.com/outsidein/moqtada-al-sadr-iraq-s-savvy-strategist
https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/moqtada-al-sadr-iraq-s-savvy-strategist2018-12-17T09:49:09Ztext/htmlenTanya GoudsouzianComment
<p>The populist, Islamist, Shia leader is not just looking for short-term gains. He's playing the long game. In recent months, the Iraqi Shia leader Moqtada al-Sadr has refused, repeatedly, American overtures for talks. Academics and journalists offering to serve as go-betweens have also been turned away. Yet a Reuters report claimed that after years of opposing the US presence in Iraq, sometimes violently, the populist cleric had finally agreed to speak to the Americans; but before the ink (...)</p>
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Qatar, wealthy, worried, and isolatedhttps://mondediplo.com/2018/11/03qatar
https://mondediplo.com/2018/11/03qatar2018-12-16T23:00:00Ztext/htmlenAngélique Mounier-Kuhnarticle2018/11 - Qatar
<p>Qatar was isolated by its neighbours' sudden blockade last year, led by Saudi Arabia. The furore over Jamal Khashoggi's killing may check the aggressive foreign policies of its crown prince, Muhammad Bin Salman, but Qatar is taking no chances. This summer the tourists stayed away and the traditional dhows waited idle in the bay of Qatar's capital city, Doha. These wooden sailing boats, once used for fishing and transporting goods, are a rare concession to nostalgia in a city that's been (...)</p>
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Wall Street, banks, and angry citizenshttps://mondediplo.com/openpage/wall-street-banks-and-angry-citizens
https://mondediplo.com/openpage/wall-street-banks-and-angry-citizens2018-12-13T22:15:11Ztext/htmlenNomi PrinsComment<p>What transcends geography and geopolitics is an underlying level of economic discontent sparked by twenty-first-century economics and a resulting Grand Canyon-sized global inequality gap that is still widening.</p>
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The anger of the ‘gilets jaunes'https://mondediplo.com/2018/12/the-anger-of-the-gilets-jaunes
https://mondediplo.com/2018/12/the-anger-of-the-gilets-jaunes2018-12-11T11:27:16Ztext/htmlenAlexis SpireComment
<p>It was government policies that put the tax debate centre stage; as the poorer saw one law for the rich, their sense of injustice grew. Now Emmanuel Macron has had to concede that people's anger is legitimate, and promise a minimum wage rise and some tax reforms. Will that be enough? The range of slogans in the protests against November's petrol price increases — ‘Stop the taxes!', ‘Macron's a pickpocket!', ‘Working is becoming a luxury', ‘Right and left = taxes', ‘Stop the racket, the revolt of a (...)</p>
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Will China dare challenge the UDHR?https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/will-china-dare-challenge-the-udhr
https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/will-china-dare-challenge-the-udhr2018-12-10T10:26:13Ztext/htmlenKatrin KinzelbachComment
<p>On 10 December the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turns 70. The seminal document laid the foundations for a global normative order, but for how much longer will this last? The UDHR has some powerful enemies, including the People's Republic of China. Of course it has influential supporters, among them Germany's president. Last week Frank-Walter Steinmeier praised the declaration in a speech at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. He called it a ‘milestone and [an] auspicious (...)</p>
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Sabine Cessou on Kenya's grand digital ambitionshttps://mondediplo.com/2018/12/09podcast
https://mondediplo.com/2018/12/09podcast2018-12-07T14:59:22Ztext/htmlenPodcasts2018/12 Kenya
<p>In this month's podcast, we ask journalist Sabine Cessou: if the 21st century is going to be African, do Kenya's high-tech plans make it a likely trailblazer?</p>
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Who is listening to Chad?https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/who-is-listening-to-chad
https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/who-is-listening-to-chad2018-12-07T09:33:47Ztext/htmlenTodd PitockComment<p>When Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed Chad's president Idriss Deby to Jerusalem last month to discuss their common perceived enemy, jihadi extremists, it created a rare moment of global attention for Chad. Chad is on the dark side of the journalism moon. The global media doesn't staff foreign bureaus here. It's hard and expensive to get to, journalist visas are no small obstacle, and working without one can land you in prison.</p>
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December: the longer viewhttps://mondediplo.com/2018/12/01zlonger-view
https://mondediplo.com/2018/12/01zlonger-view2018-12-06T15:17:37Ztext/htmlenperspective<p>A selection of archives related to this month's edition.</p>
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Italy's government defies the EUhttps://mondediplo.com/2018/11/08italy
https://mondediplo.com/2018/11/08italy2018-12-05T23:00:00Ztext/htmlenStefano Palombariniarticle
<p>The European Union has rejected the League-M5S coalition's 2019 budget plan as unrealistic. The government, which has no economic strategy, is unrepentant, and trying to please opposing bases. Europe has been worried about Italy since the coalition formed by the League and the Five Star Movement (M5S) came to power on 1 June. (The media often describes the coalition as populist, an alliance of extremes with fascistic tendencies.) Interior minister Matteo Salvini's harsh immigration policies (...)</p>
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After Argentina: the G20's climate hypocrisyhttps://mondediplo.com/outsidein/after-argentina-the-g20-s-climate-hypocrisy
https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/after-argentina-the-g20-s-climate-hypocrisy2018-12-04T10:23:36Ztext/htmlenFernando Cabrera & Anna Markova<p>The full exploitation of Vaca Muerta's reserves, the UN CESCR statement notes, ‘would consume a significant percentage of the world's carbon budget towards the objective of 1.5 degrees global warming'.</p>
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